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"The lid began rotating, unscrewing and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape"
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"Striding through pine trees and smashing them, cutting through bridges as though they were paper"
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"Snake like tentacles writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated"
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"Drifting from street to empty street, drawn inexorably towards that cry"  "The martians spent the night at work on their new machine, a squat metallic spider with jointed limbs"  |
"I fell helplessly in full sight of the martians, expecting nothing but death"
"Out of the hood hung red shreds, at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore"
Nice art updating the story to Mid-Twentieth Century judging by the artillery shown. While I loved the special effects of the 1954 movie updating to then present day and relocating to California it lost the point of the mighty Nineteenth Century British Empire meeting it's match. I loved the original comic version by Classics Illustrated.
ReplyDeleteNice new heading to the blog Bill.
Header is actually an old one tbh Terra, probably version 3. I just put it up while I have the con for a day or two!
DeleteAnd I thought you were going 'retro'
DeleteThough this is not my vision of the martian invasion, it is a bloody excellent interpretation of someone else's, which I was not aware of.
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing it to my attention Wotan.
Mish.
Its too beautiful to languish in obscurity Mish!
DeleteThat artwork is really beautiful, the gun is either a US 155mm M1 gun or a British 7.2 inch howitzer - same carriage, so WW2 or later. The car in painting seven looks to be 1950s or 1960s. When did the art appear in Tell Me Why ? Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteIve got the Britains version of the 155 M1, a lovely model.
DeleteThe artwork appeared in 1970 as I recall, in the educational magazine Tell Me Why. The ‘blind’ hooded tripods contrasted greatly with my only other vision of Wells classic, the George Pal film. As Terra says, it kind of misses the point of Edwardian England facing up against an alien threat, but the divide between the forces is still vivid. I couldn’t comprehend how the tripods could ‘see’ with the solid canopy andno windows and it had a similar effect to that of Gigers apparently eyeless Alien - inimical and threatening.
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